Looser Rules Slash Ranks
Of Environmental Firms

By

Robert Johnson Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Feb. 11, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

The landscape is shifting precariously for businesses in Florida that are supposed to be saving the Earth.

Environmental-service firms, which help companies comply with clean-air and water regulations, flourished in the 1980s. In the past few years, though, a more business-friendly regulatory climate has meant few new environmental restrictions, and the loosening of some old ones, meaning much less work for Florida's brimming cleanup...